Muses & Musings offers seventeen never before collected stories at every length from flash to novella, chosen from four separate magazines and three original anthologies. And as a bonus, there's a guest intro from every-conceivable-award-winner Robert J. SawyerBest known for his SF novels-including the InterstellarNet series and (with Larry Niven) the epic Fleet of Worlds series-Edward M. Lerner is also a prolific author of short fiction. This collection showcases many of his finest stories, featuring works selected from over a decade's output.Alternate history. Parallel worlds. Rogue artificial intelligences. Alien invasion. Biting satire as to where the Internet is leading us. A Sherlock Holmes for the next century. Deco punk. Deep thoughts about, well, deep thoughts. In this book, you'll find these-and more-together with Ed's reminiscences as to what led him to create these seventeen gems in the first place."Ahead, you'll find tales short and long of worlds near and far; you'll meet unforgettable characters and find the pages flipping by as the tension mounts."- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of FlashForward"Sure to have something to appeal to almost every reader of science fiction."- Tangent Online"He is science fiction down to the bone, but he very often takes the `serious' stuff not so seriously. Or he does, but he still squeezes a modicum of wit and whimsy into his subjects. He can catch a salient point in a couple of pages or explore a well-trodden road like AI with new insight."- Galaxy's Edge